The Boy Crisis in 3:56

Reacting to unfairness by getting agitated​and refusing to participate is a natural phenomenon.​Even boys do it.

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Nell GreenfieldboyceNPR Morning EditionDecember 9, 2008

Friederike Range, Lisa Horn, Zsóﬁa Viranyi and Ludwig Huber, “The Absence of Reward Induces Inequity Aversion in Dogs,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106 (2009): 340-345.

It’s a good start, but the whole story can’t be told in 3:56, of course. See the book for a more complete picture.